Tomato 'Emerald Apple': description of the variety of tomatoes, the rules of cultivation

Anyone who loves experimenting with unusual tomato varieties will love the Emerald Apple.

Its main advantage is amazingly beautiful fruits, distinguished by delicacy taste and high content of healthy substances.

Tomato "Emerald Apple": description of the variety and photos

Tomatoes "Emerald Apple" - medium-early high-yielding variety. Indeterminate bush, reaches 1.5 m in height. The plant is powerful, well leafy, in need of formation. Fruits are collected in brushes of 3-7 pieces.

With an adult bush you can get up to 10 kg of tomatoes. Harvesting is carried out in July-September.

Tomatoes are large, multi-chamber, weighing 250-300 g. The shape is flat-rounded, slightly ribbed. The color of ripe tomatoes is very unusual, rich green with a lemon or bronze tint. Delicious taste, very pleasant, sweet with a slight sourness, rich, not watery. The flesh is juicy, dense, emerald green.

The high content of sugars and beneficial amino acids allows you to recommend tomatoes for baby and diet food.

Here is what this variety of tomatoes looks like:

Origin and Application

The variety of the Russian selection is intended for cultivation in an open ground and film greenhouses. Harvest well stored, transportation is possible.

Tomatoes are versatile, they fit for fresh use, preparation of salads, appetizers, side dishes. Fruits are tasty in pickled and salted form, they can be included in the assorted together with red, pink or yellow tomatoes.

The fruit is an unusual and very useful juice of a greenish-lemon color.

Advantages and disadvantages

Among the main advantages of the variety:

original appearance of the fruit;
tasty and juicy tomatoes are well kept;
high yield;
resistance to major diseases.

Among the complexities of the variety is the need to form a bush and the demands of the plants on the nutritional value of the soil.

Features of growing

Seedlings are sown on seedlings in the second half of March or early April. The grade prefers light, nutritious soils with neutral acidity.

The perfect mixture: turf land with humus in equal proportions.

Part you can add a little vermicult or washed river sand. Seeds before sowing are soaked in a growth stimulator for 10-12 hours.

Sowing is carried out with a depth of 1.5 cm. After sowing, the soil is sprayed with water from a spray bottle, the container is covered with a film and placed in heat.

After the sprouts appear, seedlings are exposed to bright light. In cloudy weather, seedlings are illuminated with powerful electric lamps. The temperature in the room should not fall below 16 degrees.

After the appearance of 2-3 leaves of these seedlings dive into separate pots. Immediately after picking, seedlings are recommended to be fed with a full complex fertilizer.

In the ground or under the film seedlings are moved when the soil is fully warmed. Depending on the region, the transfer is carried out in late May-early June. Landings do not thicken. The distance between the plants is 50 cm, the spacing is at least 60 cm.

In the first days of planting cover with a film, then it can be removed. Watering is not too frequent, but plentifulOnly warm water is used. In between watering the top layer of soil should dry out.

Immediately after planting, the plant is tied to a support. Recommended remove lower leaves and side shootsforming a plant in 1 or 2 stems. Landing is quickly overgrown without a pasynkovka, and they begin to resemble a jungle.

Find out all about the features of the cultivation of other varieties of medium-early tomatoes - New Transnistria, Black Crimea, Champion, Sugar Giant, Dina, Russian soul, Titanic, Pulka, Hlynovsky, Pink Titan, Dream of Lazy and Hundred Poods.

Pests and Diseases: Control and Prevention

Tomatoes varieties "Emerald Apple" are not susceptible to major diseases of the nightshade. but preventive measures are required and for him, they will help keep planting and improve yields.

Before sowing seeds, the soil is heated in an oven, the ground in the greenhouse must be shed with a hot solution of potassium permanganate. Periodic spraying with copper-containing preparations helps against late blight, from phytosporin or another non-toxic bio-preparation from rot and fungus.

You can fight insect pests, spraying planting insecticides or infusions of herbs: celandine, chamomile, yarrow. From bare slugs helps an aqueous solution of ammonia. Detected insects are collected and destroyed.

Tomatoes "Emerald Apple" - A great choice for those who want to add a touch of exotic to the garden. Original and very tasty fruits will be a reward for taking care of plants, seeds for subsequent sowing can be collected independently.